Rakesh Jha
Vice President at MSCI Inc.
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRakesh Jha is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience, currently serving as Vice President at MSCI Inc. after a steady climb through engineering roles at NeoSOFT and Affimintus. He blends hands-on development expertise—rooted in Ruby on Rails and open-source enthusiasm—with strategic leadership in enterprise fintech software. Based in Pune, he is known for driving scalable, reliable systems while mentoring teams and aligning engineering efforts with business goals. Beyond corporate work, he identifies as a "nerdpreneur" and FLOSS activist, reflecting a long-standing commitment to community-driven software and independent projects. An avid traveller and hobbyist writer with a love for music, he brings curiosity and creative thinking to technical problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityCBSE AISSCE, CBSE AISSCE at The Pentecostal Assembly School
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (13)
rails-api6
concurrency5
ruby5
java5
jvm5
jruby5
invokedynamic4
authentication4
ruby-on-rails4
spree3
rails3
devise3
webpacker2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Jrakesh/go_social
Jun 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 1 year 2 months
Jrakesh/manage_users
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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